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Yale Receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant for Microfinance Research Initiative

Posted in Featured News on Nov 17th, 2010

17 November 2010 [Yale] Yale University has received a $7.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Microsavings & Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII), a research effort designed to understand and communicate the development potential of microsavings and money transfer services for the world’s poor and those without access to a [...]

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World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Team Up to Improve Financial Data Collection

Posted in Featured News on Nov 17th, 2010

17 November 2010 [WorldBank PressRelease] The World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched a new effort to better understand how the world’s poor save, borrow and make payments. Through an $11 million, 10-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank’s Development Research Group will, for the first [...]

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